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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Lee 's West Virginia campaign . (search)
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Ohio Volunteers . (search)
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 9 : (search)
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2 : (search)
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3 : (search)
Chapter 3:
Operations under Gen. R. E. Lee
Floyd and Wise in the Kanawha valley
battle of Carnifix Ferry
Lee's Cheat mountain campaign
Sewell mountain
Camp Bartow
Camp Alleghany
Floyd's Cotton Hill campaign.
After the danger of invasion from the northeast had been relieved by the victory at Manassas, Gen. Ro General Floyd soon abandoned the Gauley river, and moved to a junction with Wise near Dogwood gap.
Cox advanced on the 12th and the Confederates retired to Sewell mountain, occupying first the crest of the ridge and later a more defensible position about a mile and a half in the rear, which appears to have been selected by Wise. ent failed to divert Rosecrans from his advance up the Kanawha valley, and General Lee continued to receive from Wise alarming news of the enemy's. advance on Sewell mountain, and from Floyd reports that Wise would not fall back.
He repaired promptly to the Kanawha valley, reaching Floyd's camp September 21st, and at once wrote to
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12 : (search)
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)